News

For garden fun and garden know-how, wherever you live, please join in our activities.

Plant Exchanges - Garden Programs
Garden Tours - Garden Friends
Meetings: 2nd Wednesday of the months of September,
through May.

Wednesday, Sept. 12

Coffee & Social Time 9:30 am, Meeting, 10:00 a.m., Program, 11:00 a.m.

Ken Gohring will speak on Native Azaleas and Under-story Plants of Georgia

North DeKalb Cultural Center, Room 4
5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
(Adjacent to Dunwoody Library)

I trust in Nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and Autumn garner
to the ends of time. Robert Browning

MEMBERSHIP NEWS

The club's 40th anniversary luncheon will be held on Sunday, September 16, at the Dunwoody Country Club. Please come at 12:30 to look over the scrapbooks from the club's 40 years. We would like all members and their spouses to come and spend a nice afternoon with the past and present members.

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden . . . You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden. Rudyard Kipling

UPCOMING EVENTS

September 7-9, Friday-Sunday
39th Yellow Daisy Festival
at the Marina, Stone Mountain Park,
Sponsored by the Redbud District
Friday Sept 7, 3:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday Sept 8, 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Sunday Sept 9, 10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

For horticulture entry form, contact Emily Wilbert,
770-502-8381, themom@charter.net; for design entry information,
contact Joan Thornton, 404-378-3239.
Clerks are still needed for Friday, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Clerks will receive a brief orientation, a free lunch and a pass for the entire festival. Information and pass will be mailed in advance. Contact Beth Wielage, 404-294-5765.

September 20, Thursday, Redbud District hosts the Parks & Public Lands Awards Luncheon, sponsored by the Garden Club of Georgia. Location is:
Bellmere Garden House,
10777 Bell Road, Duluth, Georgia, 30097
The luncheon is $16. Mail registration form and check to Rigby Duncan, 2800 Hunting Hill Lane, Decatur, GA. 30033-1504.

DeKalb Federation of Garden Clubs
   Sept 27, Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-Noon
   At Callanwolde on Briarcliff
          www.dekalbfederation.com
Program:    Heirloom Plants
  Jim Veteto, Anthropologist, UGA

IN THE GARDEN
What's that beetle? What kind of bee is that?
Here are some websites to check out the good, the bad
and the ugly. www.bugguide.net (Georgia based) and
www.whatsthatbug.com.

Get Your 2008 Calendars
The Garden Club of Georgia engagement calendars for 2008 are called Expressions. These beautiful calendars now come in two sizes: regular and pocket. $8.00 for regular size; $6.00 for pocket size; and $13.00 for the combination pack (one regular and one pocket size). Get your order form at the membership meeting.

For a good laugh: Read a conversation between God And St. Francis called God and Lawns